Budget Urza by JohnStrangeman

Format: Commander

Commander: Urza, Chief Artificer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Urza, Chief Artificer commands an Esper artifact midrange deck that blends efficient mana ramp with overwhelming combat power. The deck develops early artifact creatures like mana Myr and Thopter producers to exploit Urza's affinity, casting the commander ahead of curve. Once Urza is established, he produces an exponentially scaling Construct token on every end step while granting artifact creatures menace to bypass blockers. The primary win condition is lethal combat damage through towering Constructs, supplemented by game-ending finishers like Cyberdrive Awakener, an asymmetric sweep with Organic Extinction, or an alternate win line using Mechanized Production on generated tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Ancient Den
• 1 Arcane Sanctum
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Bident of Thassa
• 1 Bottomless Pool // Locker Room
• 1 Bronze Guardian
• 1 Bronze Walrus
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cyberdrive Awakener
• 1 Darksteel Citadel
• 1 Digsite Engineer
• 1 Disdainful Stroke
• 1 Dispatch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Efficient Construction
• 1 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
• 1 Erode
• 1 Etherium Sculptor
• 1 Foundry Inspector
• 1 Glacial Fortress
• 1 Gold Myr
• 1 Goldmire Bridge
• 8 Island
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jhoira's Familiar
• 1 Leaden Myr
• 1 Legions to Ashes
• 1 Losheel, Clockwork Scholar
• 1 March of Progress
• 1 Master of Etherium
• 1 Mechanized Production
• 1 Mendicant Core, Guidelight
• 1 Mistvault Bridge
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Myr Battlesphere
• 1 Mystic Forge
• 1 Negate
• 1 Noxious Gearhulk
• 1 Oltec Matterweaver
• 1 One with the Machine
• 1 Organic Extinction
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Padeem, Consul of Innovation
• 1 Pilgrim's Eye
• 6 Plains
• 1 Prairie Stream
• 1 Razortide Bridge
• 1 Refute
• 1 Research Thief
• 1 Reverse Engineer
• 1 River of Tears
• 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
• 1 Scene of the Crime
• 1 Seat of the Synod
• 1 Sharding Sphinx
• 1 Shimmer Dragon
• 1 Sidequest: Catch a Fish // Cooking Campsite
• 1 Silver Myr
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sojourner's Companion
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solar Transformer
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Steelswarm Operator
• 1 Stoic Rebuttal
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Tawnos, Solemn Survivor
• 1 The Lunar Whale
• 1 Thought Monitor
• 1 Thoughtcast
• 1 Undermine
• 1 Urza, Chief Artificer
• 1 Urza, Prince of Kroog
• 1 Uthros Research Craft
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vedalken Humiliator
• 1 Void Rend
• 1 Voyage Home
• 1 Whirler Rogue